Service 02 · The Estimator
Quotes in hours. Budgets that are not missing anything.
Your own price list, built from the jobs you already quoted. The proposal writes itself, the margin is visible before it sends, and your spreadsheet keeps working underneath.
$8,000–$15,000one-off build
$500–$1,000monthly
4-6 weeksto live
* No obligation
Demo video still, a quote being priced off the catalogue
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2 min demo Coming soon. We are scoping the first builds now — a runthrough is how you get on that list.
What a budget hides
An incomplete budget looks exactly like a complete one
No red cell. No warning. A line is simply missing, and you find out when the invoice arrives. This is one real budget, line by line: every square is a line item.
201 line items
Measured on our own project set at Aveco — 201 line items across three model documents. Not a client average, and not an industry statistic.
The Estimator runs this check on your budget before you sign it, on one page.
The Estimator
Three levels. The first two work on the spreadsheet you already have; only the third needs a 3D model. Pricing and margins stay yours — we never decide what you charge.
Level 01 Catalogue Your own price list, built from the last twenty jobs you quoted, and a proposal that writes itself from it. See more
- ✓Your own price list, built from the last twenty jobs you quoted
- ✓Each price split three ways: material, labour, equipment
- ✓Quotes that look like your company, not a spreadsheet someone emailed
- ✓The proposal writes itself from those numbers. You stop retyping
- ✓Your spreadsheet keeps working underneath
$8,000 build $500 monthly 4 weeks to live
Level 02 Budget Check Everything in Catalogue, plus the one-page check before you sign: what is missing, what is doubled, what entered at zero. See more
Everything in Catalogue, 5 items, plus:
- ✓It tells you when a section is missing something it normally carries
- ✓It catches the same item counted twice, and items priced at nothing
- ✓The ready list of what never shows on a drawing: service connection, cleanup, pumping, scaffold
- ✓A one page check before you sign: what is missing, what is doubled
$11,500 build $750 monthly 5 weeks to live
Level 03 Model to Budget Quantities straight off the 3D model, broken out by floor, room and trade, and the work split into packages ready for bids. See more
Everything in Budget Check, 9 items, plus:
- ✓Your quantities come straight off the 3D model. No exporting, no retyping
- ✓Quantities broken out by floor, by room and by trade
- ✓Every version kept, so saving over something stops meaning losing it
- ✓A punch list of what to fix in the model, each with a name and a date
- ✓The work split into packages, ready to send out for bids
$15,000 build $1,000 monthly 6 weeks to live
This is for you if
- ✓You price from a spreadsheet you have been patching for years.
- ✓Two people in your office price the same job two different ways.
- ✓Owners are writing quotes at night because nobody else can.
- ✓You have lost a job because the quote took five days to send.
This is not for you if
- —You quote same day and have never lost a job to speed.
- —You already model everything in Revit or heavy CAD. Say so on the call — that is a different conversation.
- —You want someone to do your takeoffs for you, job after job.
Three levels to The Estimator
Start where your pricing lives today. Level 03 is the only one that reads a 3D model.
Level 01
Catalogue Your own price list, built from the last twenty jobs you quoted, and a proposal that writes itself from it.
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Level 02
Budget Check Everything in Catalogue, plus the one-page check before you sign: what is missing, what is doubled, what entered at zero.
Level 03
Model to Budget Quantities straight off the 3D model, broken out by floor, room and trade, and the work split into packages ready for bids.
Build
$8,000
$11,500
$15,000
Monthly
$500
$750
$1,000
Time to live
4 weeks
5 weeks
6 weeks
Your own price list, built from the last twenty jobs you quoted
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Each price split three ways: material, labour, equipment
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Quotes that look like your company, not a spreadsheet someone emailed
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The proposal writes itself from those numbers. You stop retyping
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Your spreadsheet keeps working underneath
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It tells you when a section is missing something it normally carries
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It catches the same item counted twice, and items priced at nothing
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The ready list of what never shows on a drawing: service connection, cleanup, pumping, scaffold
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A one page check before you sign: what is missing, what is doubled
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Your quantities come straight off the 3D model. No exporting, no retyping
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Quantities broken out by floor, by room and by trade
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Every version kept, so saving over something stops meaning losing it
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A punch list of what to fix in the model, each with a name and a date
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The work split into packages, ready to send out for bids
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What we do not do
Said out loud, before you ask
- 01Decide what you charge. Your prices and your margins stay yours.
- 02Fix your model for you. Patch it downstream and the next export breaks it again.
- 03Do your takeoffs for you, job after job.
- 04Negotiate with your suppliers.
- 05Pay for your modelling or pricing software.
Schedule
Weeks 1-2: we turn your past quotes into a structured price list. Weeks 3-4: we wire your margins and allowances. Weeks 5-6: the branded proposal, and the first live quotes run alongside you. Six weeks, start to live
Workstream Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6
Price list from your past quotes
Margins, allowances and rules
Proposal template
First live quotes & handover
We build Handover to your team Live at the end of week 6.
We need five to ten past quotes that won you jobs, your markup rules, and four to six hours of your time across the six weeks.
FAQ
Straight answers before you book
The quick stuff is below. Anything else gets covered on the call.
I use Excel and it works.
Excel does not send the quote, chase it, or tell you which ones went cold. This does, and it keeps your spreadsheet underneath.
My line items are custom on every job.
So were the last two hundred. We build the price list from your own past quotes, and after that it is assembly, not authorship.
Do I need a 3D model?
Only for level 03. The first two levels read the spreadsheet you already price from.
Who decides the margin?
You do. We wire your rules in and show the margin before anything sends. We never set a price for you.
What happens to the quotes we already sent?
They get chased until you have a yes or a no, the same way the Sales Engine chases an enquiry.
See what your last budget was missing
Book a runthrough, bring one budget you already sent, and we will run the check on it live. No obligation.